Biography
Sabrena Osei-Tutu
Sabrena Osei-Tutu is an actor, writer, and artist whose work centers around identifying the human experience through storytelling. She came to acting through films and television that taught her how a performance could open a door into entirely different lives. She rarely saw people who looked like her on screen, so acting became her way to change that, by telling stories that hadn’t been told and destroying stereotypes she grew up seeing.
Training at Identity School of Acting and later at RADA gave Osei-Tutu the tools to step into the worlds of others. Whether as Shakespeare's characters Lady Macbeth and Puck, Chekhov's Natasha from Three Sisters, or the World War I soldier Private Mason from Journey’s End, each contrasting role has allowed her to explore the tenderness of human life.
Before drama school, Osei-Tutu found expression through drag king performance and spoken-word poetry, discovering how language and embodiment could alter a room. Her monologue in Lit, Rikki Beadle-Blair’s anthology for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic performers, is part of her commitment to expanding whose stories get told. Each year, she and her twin host an art show that gathers poetry, music, and visual art in one space: a reminder that art is community, and community is revolution.
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Photo by Matthew Thompson.